John Jensen
Instructor
M.F.A., University of Connecticut
Acting, Movement
Office: Eldred Hall
Phone: 216-368-3199
E-mail: jlj18@case.edu
John Jensen is an Instructor in the Department of Theater & Dance at Case Western Reserve University, where he teaches Acting and Movement for the Actor. His directing credits include Stage Door by Kaufman and Ferber, co-directed with Mark Alan Gordon, What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, and The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson for Case Western Reserve University. Other Cleveland area credits include Evita for St. Ignatius High School, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo for Baldwin-Wallace College. Although originally from the mid-west, John moved to Cleveland after spending eight years in New York City. John has been a member of Actor’s Equity since 1993. Performance credits include The Duke of Florence in All’s Well That Ends Well, a self-produced cabaret I’m Just Sayingat Cain Park, and Alan in Baby at the Kalliope Stage. His favorite theatrical credits include Marvin in Falsettos, John/James in Love! Valour! Compassion!, Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the title role in Robinson Jeffers’ Medea, Frederick Egerman in A Little Night Music, The Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie, and Ralph Clark in Our Country’s Good. While in New York he also performed his self-produced cabaret, “Back To Life – Dead writers-Dead singers-Dead songs.